Agnieszka Smoczyńska debuted in 2015 with THE LURE – a genre-bending, horror-musical mashup written by Robert Bolesto,won awards around the world, at dozens of international festivals, including Porto, Sofia, Montreal, Vilnius, and the Sundance Film Festival. Recently it became a part of prestigious Criterion Collection. Her second feature film FUGUE premiered at Cannes as a part of the prestigious Critics’ Week section. In 2022, her English-language debut, SILENT TWINS, starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. Smoczyńska took part in the European Cinema: Ten Women Filmmakers to Watch program. She was also a winner of the Global Filmmaking Award sponsored by the Sundance Institute. This year Smoczyńska was named among Directors to Watch in Cannes.